No IRS Audit for You This Year? Thank the Sequester

Jonnelle Marte explains Washington budget cuts will reduce the chances of taxpayers getting an audit letter in the mail from the IRS this year. Photo: AP Images.

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... the the ... no one aspires to join a small percentage of the lucky taxpayers to get audited by the IRS that this year your chances of getting on in our less than usual Jonnelle Marte say is here to tell us why so ... tonight this is some sort of a silver lining when it comes as a tax landed ... getting on better less why why is that this year ... so there are perking up this week by unseen back ... on things I mean to be still is actually dropped by five percent last year ... and people are saying that we can actually see that trend continue because of the budget cuts so the sequestration cuts is the silver lining their entire Pursell taxpayers they may not have ... but the manpower to go after people exactly the irises are reworking the way they are really kind of straps there were twenty seven thousand fewer employees and had two years ago ... and now when looking at ... potential furloughs oh five to seven days over the summer I'm the word is used in planes ... and and that's precisely the time when did in the not a lot of their enforcement actions a lot of their audience ... on there was a survey of IRS employees and they are also seeing that they're wary that the cuts and her enforcement actions so they worry that issued forth like this I ... think first of all the media not be as honest as they ... might be if they worry that a lot about getting caught the right and and if there is going to be an oddity can take a longer and for the people who would find balancing the mystique ... and the Almighty you could actually these higher penalties and higher interest charges depending on what the process is finally done to this music alive and celebrate ... many of these crazy ... nights and a lot of this is done now I'm doing and how great you necessarily have to sit down face to face across from a ... fresh exactly exactly another reason to use the so the you know on this the IRS is actually adapting to the Somali were workforce ... by and doing more audits of in the mail by emphasizing their matching software so they're able to spots ... of any kind of un reported income are most cases of unreported income using the software and it's all pretty I'm not a sell them to suffer goes through in an all out some things that they find the irregularity exactly that's a really should keep ... all your paperwork together be very hard is it what are some The some things that people should keep in mind even though they get less of a chance to get on that one mix there that that they're not one of the lucky few if Union one of the main things is to keep a hold of the record straight so you wanna have all of your income proof your ten ninety nine to seventy two years but earned eight deductions and credits to keep the receipts ... because sometimes the address me as my for me sand ... and if you're not a bank ... exactly and I had some issues in the tea hot ask you to pay back some